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A36106	A new voyage round the world describing particularly the isthmus of America, several coasts and islands in the West Indies, the isles of Cape Verd, the passage by Terra del Fuego, the South Sea coasts of Chili, Peru and Mexico, the isle of Guam one of the Ladrones, Mindanao, and other Philippine and East-India islands near Cambodia, China, Formosa, Luconia, Celebes, &c., New Holland, Sumatra, Nicobar Isles, the Cape of Good Hope, and Santa Hellena : their soil, rivers, harbours, plants, fruits, animals, and inhabitants : their customs, religion, government, trade, &c. / by William Dampier ; illustrated with particular maps and draughts.	Dampier, William, 1652-1715.	1697 (1697)	Wing D161; Wing D165; ESTC R9942	710,236	1,112

the Spice into their own hands There was another opportunity offered us here of settling on another Spice Island that was very well inhabited for the Inhabitants fearing the Dutch and understanding that the English were settling at Mindanao their Sultan sent his Nephew to Mindanao while we were there to invite us thither Captain Swan conferr'd with him about it divers times and I do believe he had some inclination to accept the offer and I am sure most of the men were for it but this never came to a head for want of a true understanding between Captain Swan and his Men as may be declared hereafter Beside the benefit which might accrue from this Trade with Meangis and other the Spice Islands the Philippine Islands themselves by a little care and industry might have afforded us a very beneficial Trade and all these Trades might have been managed from Mindanao by settling there first For that Island lyeth very convenient for Trading either to the Spice Islands or to the rest of the Philippine Islands since as its Soil is much of the same nature with either of them so it lies as it were in the Center of the Gold and Spice Trade in these parts the Islands North of Mindanao abounding most in Gold and those South of Meangis in Spice As the Island Mindanao lies very convenient for Trade so considering its distance the way thither may not be over long and tiresome The course that I would choose should be to set out of England about the latter end of August and to pass round Terra del Fuego and so stretching over towards New Holland coast it along that shore till I came near to Mindanao or first I would coast down near the American shore as far as I found convenient and then direct my course accordingly for the Island By this I should avoid coming near any of the Dutch settlements and be sure to meet always with a constant brisk Easterly Trade Wind after I was once past Terra del Fuego Whereas in passing about the Cape of Good Hope after you are shot over the East Indian Ocean and are come to the Islands you must past thro the Streights of Malacca or Sundy or else some other Streights East from Java where you will be sure to meet with Counter-winds go on which side of the Equator you please and this would require ordinarily 7 or 8 months for the Voyage but the other I should hope to perform in 6 or 7 at most In your return from thence also you must observe the same Rule as the Spaniards do in going from Manila to Acapulco only as they run towards the North Pole for variable Winds so you must run to the South-ward till you meet with a Wind that will carry you over to Terra del Fuego There are places enough to touch at for Refreshments either going or coming You may touch going thither on either side of Terra Patagonica or if you please at the Gallapagoes Islands where there is Refreshment enough and returning you may probably touch somewhere on New Holland and so make some profitable discovery in these places without going out of your way And to speak my thoughts freely I believe 't is owing to the neglect of this easy way that all that vast Tract of Terra Australis which bounds the South Sea is yet undiscovered those that cross that Sea seeming to design some business on the Peruvian or Mexican Coast and so leaving that at a distance To confirm which I shall add what Captain Davis told me lately that after his Departure from us at the Haven of Ria Lexa as is mentioned in the 8th Chap. he went after several Traverses to the Gallapagoes and that standing thence Southward for Wind to bring him about Terra del Fuego in the Lat. of 27 South about 500 leagues from Copayapo on the Coast of Chili he saw a small sandy Island just by him and that they saw to the Westward of it a long tract of pretty high Land tending away toward the North West out of sight This might probably be the Coast of Terra Australis Incognita But to return to Mindanao as to the capacity we were then in of setting our selves at Mindanao although we were not sent out of any such design of settling yet we were as well provided or better considering all circumstances than if we had For there was scarce any useful Trade but some or others of us understood it We had Sawyers Carpenters Joyners Brickmakers Bricklayers Shoemakers Taylors c. we only wanted a good Smith for great work which we might have had at Mindanao We were very well provided with Iron Lead and all sorts of Tools as Saws Axes Hammers c. We had Powder and Shot enough and very good small Arms. If we had designed to build a Fort we could have spared 8 or 10 Guns out of our Ship and Men enough to have managed it and any affair of Trade beside We had also a great advantage above raw Men that are sent out of England into these places who proceed usually too cautiously coldly and formerly to compass any considerable design which Experience better teaches than any Rules whatsoever besides the danger of their Lives in so great and sudden a a change of Air whereas we were all inured to hot Climates hardned by many fatigues and in general daring Men and such as would not be easily baffled To add one thing more our Men were almost tired and began to desire a quietus est and therefore they would gladly have seated themselves any where We had a good Ship too and enough of us beside what might have been spared to manage our new Settlement to bring the News with the effects to the Owners in England for Captain Swan had already 5000 l. in Gold which he and his Merchants received for goods sold mostly to Captain Harris and his men which if he had laid but part of it out in Spice as probably he might have done would have satisfy'd the Merchants to their hearts content So much by way of digression To proceed therefore with our first Reception at Mindanao Raja Laut and his Nephew sat still in their Canoa and would not come aboard us because as they said they had no orders for it from the Sultan After about half an hours discourse they took their leaves first inviting Captain Swan ashore and promising him to assist him in getting provision which they said at present was scarce but in 3 or 4 months time the Rice would be gathered in and then he might have as much as he pleased and that in the mean time he might secure his Ship in some convenient place for fear of the Westerly winds which they said would be very violent at the latter end of this month and all the next as we found them We did not know the quality of these two persons till after they were gone else we should have fir'd some Guns

about three years in that employ and so was well acquainted with the place and the work We sailed with a prosperous gale without any impediment or remarkable passage in our Voyage unless that when we came in sight of the Island Hispaniola and were coasting along on the South side of it by the little Istes of Vacca or Ash I observed Captain Knapman was more vigilant than ordinary keeping at a good distance off shore for fear of coming too near those small low Islands as he did once in a voyage from England about the year 1673 losing his Ship there by the carelesness of his Mates But we succeeded better and arrived safe at Port Royal in Jamaica some time in April 1679 and went immediately ashore I had brought some goods with me from England which I intended to sell here and stock my self with Rum and Sugar Saws Axes Hats Stockings Shoes and such other Commodities as I knew would sell among the Compeachy Log-wood Cutters Accordingly I sold my English Cargo at Port Royal but upon some maturer considerations of my intended Voyage to Campeachy I changed my thoughts of that design and continued at Jamaica all that year in expectation of some other business I shall not trouble the Reader with my Observations at that Isle so well known to English men nor with the particulars of my own Affairs during my stay there But in short having there made a purchase of a small Estate in Dorsetshire near my Native Country of Somerset of one whose Title to it I was well assured of I was just embarking my self for England about Christmas 1679 when one Mr Hobby invited me to go first a short Trading Voyage to the Country of the Moskito's of whom I shall speak in my first Chapter I was willing to get up some money before my return having laid out what I had at Jamaica so I sent the Writing of my new purchase along with the same friends whom I should have accompanied to England and went on board Mr Hobby Soon after our setting out we came to an anchor again in Negril Bay at the West end of Jamaica but finding there Captain Coxon Sawkins Sharp and other Privateers Mr Hobby's men all left him to go with them upon an expedition they had contrived leaving not one with him beside my self and being thus left alone after 3 or 4 days stay with Mr Hobby I was the more easily perswaded to go with them too It was shortly after Christmas 1679 when we set out The first Expedition was to Portobel which being accomplished it was resolved to march by Land over the Isthmus of Darien upon some new Adventures in the South Seas Accordingly on the 5th of April 1680 we went ashore on the Isthmus near Golden Island one of the Sambaloes to the number of between 3 and 400 men carrying with us such Provisions as were necessary and Toys wherewith to gratify the Wild Indians through whose Country we were to pass In about nine days march we arrived at Sonta Maria and took it and after a stay there of about three days we went on to the South Sea Coast and there embarked our selves in such Canoas and Periago's us our Indian friends furnished us withal We were in sight of Panama by the 23d of April and having in vain attempted Paebla Nova before which Sawkins then Commander in chief and others were kill'd we made some stay at the Neighbouring Isles of Quibo Here we resolved to change our course and stand away to the Southward for the Coast of Peru. Accordingly we left the Keys or Isles of Quibo the 6th of June and spent the rest of the year in that Southern course for touching at the Isles of Gorgonia and Plata we came to Ylo a small Town on the Coast of Peru and took it This was in October and in November we went thence to Coquimbo on the same Coast and about Christmas were got as far as the Isle of John Fernando which was the farthest of our Course to the Southward After Christmas we went back again to the Northward having a design upon Arica a strong Town advantageously situated in the hollow of the Elbow or bending of the Peruvian Coast. But being there repulsed with great loss we continued our course Northward till by the middle of April we were come in sight of the Isle of Plata a little to the Southward of the Equinoctial Line I have related this part of my Voyage thus summarily and concisely as well because the World hath Accounts of it already in the relations that Mr Ringrose and others have given of Captain Sharp's Expedition who was made chief Commander upon Sawkins's being kill'd as also because in the prosecution of this Voyage I shall come to speak of these parts again upon occasion of my going the second time into the South Seas and shall t here describe at large the places both of the North and South America as they occurred to me And for this reason that I might avoid needless Repetitions and hasten to such particulars as the Publick hath hitherto had no account of I have chosen to comprize the Relation of my Voyage hitherto in this short compass and place it as an Introduction before the rest that the Reader may the better perceive where I mean to begin to be Particular for there I have plac'd the Title of my first Chapter All therefore that I have to add to the Introduction is this That while we lay at the Isle of John Fernando Captain Sharp was by general consent displaced from being Commander the Company being not satisfied either with his Courage or Behaviour In his stead Captain Watling was advanced but he being killed shortly after before Arica we were without a Commander during all the rest of our return towards Plata Now Watling being killed a great number of the meaner sort began to be as earnest for choosing Captain Sharp again into the vacancy as before they had been as forward as any to turn him out And on the other side the abler and more experienced men being altogether dissatisfied with Sharp's former Conduct would by no means consent to have him chosen In short by that time we were come in sight of the Island Plata the difference between the Contending Parties was grown so high that they resolved ●…o part Companies having first made an Agreement that which Party soever should upon Polling appear to have the Majority they should keep the Ship And the other should content themselves with the Lanch or Long-boat and Canoas and return back over the Isthmus or go to seek their fortune otherways as they would Accordingly we put it to the Vote and upon dividing Captain Sharp's party carried it I who had never been pleased with his management though I had hitherto kept my mind to my self now declared my self on the side of those that were Out-voted and according to our agreement we took our shares of such Necessaries as were

much esteemed by them for I have met with plenty of them in many places in the North Seas where the Spaniards are settled as in the Bay of Campechy on the Coast of Cartagena and the Coast of Carraccos and there are some in Jamaica which were planted by the Spaniards when they possessed that Island The Mammee-Sappota Tree is different from the Mammee described at the Isle of Tabago in this Chapter It is not so big or so tall neither is the Fruit so big or so round The rind of the Fruit is thin and brittle the inside is a deep red and it has a rough flat long stone This is accounted the principal Fruit of the West Indies It is very pleasant and wholsome I have not seen any of these on Jamaica but in many places in the West Indies among the Spaniards There is another sort of Mammee-tree which is called the wild Mammee This bears a Fruit which is of no value but the Tree is streight tall and very tough and therefore principally used for making Masts The Star Apple Tree grows much like the Quince Tree but much bigger It is full of leaves and the leaf is broad of an oval shape and of a very dark green colour The Fruit is as big as a large Apple which is commonly so covered with leaves that a man can hardly see it They say this is a good Fruit I did never taste any but have seen both of the Trees and Fruit in many places on the Main on the North side of the Continent and in Jamaica When the Spaniards possest that Island they planted this and other sorts of Fruit as the Sapadillo Avoga●…o Pear and the like and of these Fruits there is still in Jamaica in those Plantations that were first settled by the Spaniards as at the Angels at 7 mile Walk and 16 mile Walk There I have seen these Trees which were planted by the Spaniards but I did never see any improvement made by the English who seem in that little curious The Road for Ships is on the North side where there is good anchoring half a mile from the shore There is a Well close by the Sea on the North side and formerly there were 3 or 4 Houses close by it but now they are destroyed This Island stands right against the mouth of the River Cheapo The River Cheapo springs out of the Mountains near the North side of the Country and it being penn'd up on the South side by other Mountains bends its course to the Westward between both till finding a passage on the S. W. it makes a kind of a half circle and being swell'd to a considerable bigness it runs with a slow motion into the Sea 7 leagues from Panama This River is very deep and about a quarter of a mile broad but the mouth of it is choaked up with Sands so that no Ships can enter but Barks may There is a small Spanish Town of the same name within 6 leagues of the Sea it stands on the left hand going from the Sea This is it which I said Captain La Sound attempted The Land about it is champion with many small Hills cloathed with Weeds but the biggest part of the Country is Savannah On the South side of the River it is all wood-land for many leagues together It was to this Town that our 250 Men were sent The 24th day they returned out of the River having taken the Town without any opposition but they found nothing in it By the way going thither they took a Canoa but most of the Men escaped ashore upon one of the Kings Islands She was sent out well appointed with armed Men to watch our motion The 25th day Captain Harris came to us having cleaned his Ship The 26th day we went again toward Tabago our Fleet now upon Captain Harris joining us again consisted of 10 Sail. We arrived at Tabago the 28th day there our Prisoners were examined concerning the strength of Panama for now we thought our selves strong enough for such an Enterprize being near 1000 Men. Out of these on occasion we could have landed 900 but our Prisoners gave us small Encouragement to it for they assured us that all the strength of the Country was there and that many Men were come from Portobel besides its own Inhabitants who of themselves were more in number than we These reasons together with the strength of the place which hath a high Wall deterr'd us from attempting it While we lay here at Tabago some of our men burnt the Town on the Island The 4th of May we failed hence again bound for the Kings Islands and there we continu'd cruising from one end of these Islands to the other till on the 22d day Captain Davis and Captain Gronet went to Pacheque leaving the rest of the Fleet at anchor at St. Pauls Island From Pacheque we sent 2 Canoas to the Island Chepelio in hopes to get a Prisoner there The 25th day our Canoas return'd from Chepelio with three Prisoners which they took there They were Sea-men belonging to Panama who said that provision was so scarce and dear there that the poor were almost starved being hindred by us from those common and daily supplies of Plantains which they did formerly injoy from the Islands especially from those two of Chepelio and Tabago That the President of Panama had strictly ordered that none should adventure to any of the Islands for Plantains but necessity had obliged them to trespass against the Presidents Order They farther reported that the Fleet from Lima was expected every day for it was generally talked that they were come from Lima and that the report at Panama was that King Charles 2d of England was dead and that the Duke of York was crowned King The 27th day Captain Swan and Captain Townly also came to Pacheque where we lay but Captain Swan s Bark was gone in among the Kings Islands for Plantains The Island Pacheque as I have before related is the northermost of the Kings Islands It is a small low Island about a league round On the South side of it there are 2 or 3 small Islands neither of them half a mile round Between Pacheque and these Islands is a small channel not above 6 or 7 paces wide and about a mile long Through this Captain Townly made a bold run being prest hard by the Spaniards in the fight I am going to speak of though he was ignorant whether there was a sufficient depth of Water or not On the East side of thiss Channel all our Fleet lay waiting for the Lima Fleet which we were in hopes would come this way The 28th day we had a very wet morning for the Rains were come in as they do usually in May or June sooner or later so that May is here a very uncertain month Hitherto till within a few days we had had good fair weather and the Wind at N. N. E. but now the weather was altered and the Wind at

r. broaching to 8. l. 15. r Bays and 48. l. 12. r. comes from over 53. l. 15. r. to cross the 64. l. 18. r. in hopes l. 36. for Coasts r. Coats l. 38. r. we gain'd 75. l. 4. r. Hurricanes and INDEX In the Advertisement p. 1. l. 15. r. Describ'd Courtiers c. r S. 59. Curlews c. add like them W. 110. Land l. 3. r. 123 4. good La guages r. 431. 479. Legs l 3. r. 329. 502. Man of War Bird add W. 66. Piura for Pinra P ligamy r. 455. 514. S. 50. 64. Rivers r. not perennial BOOKS sold by James Knapton at the Crown in St. Paul's Church-yard A New Voyage Round the VVorld Describing particularly The Isthmus of America several Coasts and Islands in the West-Indies the Isles of Cape Verde the Passage by Terra del Fuego the South Sea Coasts of Chili Peru and Mexico the Isle of Guam one of the Ladrones Mindanao and other Philippine and East-India Islands near Cambodia China Formosa Luconia Celebes c. New Holland Sumatra Nicobar Isles the Cape of Good Hope and Santa Hellena Their Soil Rivers Harbours Plants Fruits Animals and Inhabitant Their Customs Religion Government Trade c. By William Dampier Vol. the First Illustrated with particular Maps and Draughts The Fourth Edition Corrected A New Voyage and Description of the Isthmus of America giving an Account of the Author 's Abode there the Form and Make of the Co●… v Coasts 〈◊〉 Rivers c. Woods Soil Weather c. Trees Fr●… 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. The Indian Inhabitants their Features Complexion c. their Manners Customs Employments Marriages Feasts Hunting Computation Language c. With Remarks de Occurrences in the South Sea and elsewhere By Lionel 〈◊〉 Illustrated with several Copper Piates Discours●… on the Publick Revenues and on the Trade of England In Two Part. Viz. I. Of the 〈◊〉 of Political Arithmetick in all Considerations about the Revenues and Trade II. On Credit and the Means and Methods by which it my be restored III. On the Management of the King's Revenues IV. Whether to Farm the Reuenues may not in this Juncture be most for the Publick Service V. On the Publick Debts and Engagements By the Author of The Essay on Ways and Means Part I. To which is added A Discourse upon Improving the Revenue of the State of Athens Written Originally in Greek and now made English from the Original with some Historical Notes By another Hand Discourses on the Publick Revenues and on the Trade of England VVich more immediately Treat of the Foreign Traffick of this Kingdom Viz. I. That Foreign Trade is beneficial to England II. On the Protection and Care of Trade III. On the Plantation Trade IV. On the East India Trade By the Author of The Essay on Ways and Means Part II. To which is added the late Essay on the East-India Trnde By the same Hand An Essay upon the probable Methods of making a People Gainers in the Ballance of Trade Treating of these Heads viz. Of the People of England Or the Land of England and its Product Of our Payments to the Publick and in what manner the Ballance of Trade may be thereby affected That a Country cannot increase in VVealth and Power but by private Men doing their Duty to the Publick and but by a steady Course of Honesty and VVisdom in such as are trusted with the Administration of Affairs By the Author of The Essay on Ways and Means A Treatise of Morality In Two Parts VVritten in French by F. Malbranch Author of The Search after Truth And Translated into English by James Shipton M. A. Jacobi Rohaulti Phyfica Latinè reddidit annotatiunculis quibusdam illustravit S. Clarke A. B. C. G. C. C. Accessit index rerum Phaenomenorum praecipuorum The Memoirs of Monsieur Pontis who served in the French Armies 56 Years Traslated by Charles Cotton Esq Folio Processus Integri in morbis fere omnibus Curandis à Do. Tho. Sydenham Conscripti 125. Dr. Sydenham's Practice of Physick faithfully translated into English with large Annotations Animadversions and practical Obser vations on the same By W. Salmon M. D. 125. The Penitent or Entertainments for Lent written in French by R. F. N. Causin and translated into English by Sir B. B. Tenth Edition To which ss added several Sculptures Wingate's Arithmetick 8vo Oldham's VVorks 8vo Latin Common Prayer 125. Cambridge Concordance fol. Idem in French Duty of Man's VVorks fol. Cambridge Phrases 8vo Patrick on Genesis Exodus c. 4to Baker's Chronicle fol. Collier's Essays 8vo L'Estrange's Aesop fol. View of the Stage 8vo Tillotson's Sermon 8vo Salmon's Dispensatory 8vo Temple's Essays Seneca's Morals 8vo Dreyden's Virgil fol. South's Sermons 3 Vol. 8vo Fuvenal 8vo Stillingfleet's Sermons 3 Vol. 8vo Miscellany Poems   Mr. Shadwel's Plays bound or single viz. 1 Sullen Lovers 2 Humorist 3 Royal Shepherdess 4 Virtuoso 5 Psyche 6 Libertine 7 Epsom VVells 8 Timon of Athens 9 Miser 10 True VVidow 11 Lancashire VVitches 12 Woman Captain 13 Squire of Alsatia 14 Bury Fair 15 Amorous Biggot 16 Scowrers 17 Volunteers Also these and all other Modern Plays Mr. Anthony Abdelazer Alphonso K. of Naples Antony and Cleopatra Bellamira Black Prince at Tryphon Country Wit Country Wife Chances Circe Cheats City Politicks Cambyses Destruction of Jerusalem Duke and no Duke Devil of a Wife Distressed Innocence Dame Dobson Dutch Lover Don Quixot 3 part Double Dealer Empress of Morocco Earl of Essex English Monarch English Fryer Edward the Third Emperor of the Moon English Lawyer Fond Husband Feign'd Courtezans Forc'd Marriage Greenwich Park Henry 5 and Mustapha Heir of Morocco Hamlet Ibrahim Island Princess Julius Caesar Injur'd Lovers Innocent Usurper King and no King King Lear Love in a Tub London Cuckolds Love for Money Man of Modc Mulberry Garden Mackbeth Madam Fickle Maids Tragedy Marriage-hater match'd Maids last Prayer Othello Old Ratchelor Oroonoko Plain Dealer Philaster Regulus Rehearsal Richmond Heiress Scornful Lady She would if she could Siege of Babilon Sir Solomon Single Squire Oldsap Successful Strangers And all other Plays